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A FIGHTING FAITH FOR AMERICA by Harry S. Truman United States Senator from Missouri Something is desperately wrong with our American home front in this war. Something so wrong that it now worries our Generals and Admirals as much as the enemy does and has let loose an avalanche of bitter letters to Washington from American soldiers all the way from Sicily to the Solomons and from Australia to Attu. As one of them put it to a newspaper correspondent on the eve of Inde- pendence Day: "What weive got is the Fourth of July coming up and the country we are fighting for fighting itself. I want to be proud of my country, and the reports in the paper this morning made me ashamed. The country is too damned big and too damned beautiful to carry on like this." Hitler once counted upon a crisis on our home front to insure his final triumph. Might he count on it yet to save him from final ruin? What has produced this crisis, and what is the remedy? It has been the job of the Senate War Investigating Committee to look into the home front situation and make recommendations. Since the Committee was organized in March, 1941, it has, with the unanimous approval of its member- ship - Republican and Democrat - submitted twenty-one major reports covering Army camps, War Production Board, aluminum, gasoline and fuel oil, rubber, steel, ordnance, aircraft, shipbuilding and manpower. With a total expenditure of less than $160,000, the estimated savings to taxpayers ranges from two to eleven billion dollars. The sole aim has been more efficient war production, letting the chips fall where they will, whether the party at fault be an Army or Navy aircraft inspector, a recalcitrant labor leader, the head of a million dollar corporation, or a high administration official. The Committee has listened to many hundreds of witnesses, taken five mil- lion words of testimony, obtained the considered views of responsible Americans S. NARA